Past Honorary Degree Recipients

2025

Ken Robertson


2024

Greg Hill
Noah Hull


2023

Harold Garde
Paul Street


2022

None


2021

Joe Kelsey (Awarded 2022)
Carol Mead


2020

Crawford White Eagle (Awarded 2021)
John A. List (Awarded 2023)
Jim Magagna (Awarded 2021)


2019

Judy Catchpole
Judy Shepard


2018

Neltje
Maggie Scarlett


2017

Peter H. Hassrick
Paula Green Johnson


2016

Tom Bell
Don King
John McPhee


2015

None


2014

None


2013

Nancy Gwinn
Stephen Nicholas


2012

Karl D. Allen
Donna K. Diers
Pete Williams


2011

Robert E. Bonner
Jeffrey L. Cummings
Phil Lantz
E. Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh


2010

Gus Fleischli
Alvin Kernan
John F. Turner


2009

Barry Douglas
Mary Ellbogen Garland
Tracy Ringolsby


2008

Peter D. Lax
James C. Nielson
Michael J. Sullivan


2007

None


2006

Oliver Boileau
Jim Hageman


2005

Jerry Buss
Truta Cooper
Jim Logan
Frank Mendicino


2004

Evelyn M. Bell
John Clay
Ward Gates
Malcom McKenna


2003

Daniel S. Klein
James F. Neal


2002

Kenny K. Amaihian
Dick Scarlett


2001

Donald Kendall
E. Gerald Meyer


2000

Edward C. Bryant
Solomon D. Trujillo


1999

Frederick Brant Rentschler II
Alan K Simpson


1998

None


1997

John P. "Jack" Ellbogen
William Doyle Ruckelshaus


1996

Beatrice Gallatin Beuf
Jerry W. Housel
Robert N. Harris
Roger Soder


1995

Kenneth L. Hoy
Thomas F. Stroock


1994

None


1993

Lynne Cheney
Jack Rosenthal


1992

Lynn M. Martin
Ralph E. McWhinnie
Pius Moss
Teno Roncalio


1991

Winifred J. Hickey
Lloyd H. Snider
John Wold


1990

Richard B. Cheney
Gerald L. Spence


1989

None


1988

H.A. "Dave" True
James A. Barlow


1987

Ewing Thomas Kerr
Bernold M. Hanson


1986

Harry Jackson
Margaret E. Murie


1985

Donald L. Blackstone, Jr.
Lawrence Milton Woods


1984

T.A. “Al” Larson


1980-1983

None


1979

Fritiof M. Fryxell
Victor J. Hammer
Velma Linford
Charles Rogers


1978

Wilhelm G. Solheim
Kenneth L. Tallman
Carl Edward Sagan


1977

W. Sherman Burns
Frank Johnson Trellease
Rudolph T. Anselmi
Robert Mac Vicar
Finis Mitchell


1976

Adolph Deutsch
William Mulloy
Robert W. Fenwick


1975

Stanley K. Hathaway
Robert C. Seamans, Jr.


1974

Harold McCracken
Lowell J. Paige


1973

Ian MacGregor


1972

Curt E. Gowdy
Lillian G. Portenier
Joseph M. Roebling
Ernest C. Miller
Victor Weybright


1971

Harrison Scott Brown
Robert Douglas Coe
Charles Chacey Kuehn
Thomas E. Starzi, M.D.


1970

Jack R. Gage
Shirley M. Hustedler
Leo McLaughlin
Joe H. Watt


1969

Arthur B. Belfer


1968

H.T. Person


1967

Edd Hamilton Bailey

Floyd Elgin Dominy

Donald Roger Sabin


1966

None


1965

Clifford Peter Hansen
Frederick Brown Harris
Gale William McGee
Nels H. Smith

Abdul Samad Hamed


1964

Margaret McIntosh Boice
Bob Hope
George Duke Humphrey


1963

Marlin T. Kurtz
Samuel Cochran Phillips
Laurence S. Rockefeller

Zahir Shah


1962

William M. Fitzhugh, Jr.
Herold G. Merriam
John C. Stennis


1961

Wilson Obert Clough
John David Love


1960

J.J. Hickey
Tracey Stephenson McCraken
John A. Reed


1959

J.C. Donnell, II
Morris H. Hansen


1958

W. Edwards Deming
Thomas S. Harrison
Oda S. Mason


1957

Fred H. Blume
Glenworth Marion Willson


1956

William Rogers Coe
Albert Arthur Slade


1955

Perry W. Jenkins
William Thomas Nightingale
David M. Potter
Susan J. Quealy
Milward Lee Simpson


1954

J.E. Brock
Fenimore Chatterton
Glenn E. Nielson


1953

Frank A. Barrett
George Palmer Johnston
Samuel Howell Knight
Robert Wells Lazear


1952

Mary G. Bellamy
L.C. Bishop
Ralph Kimball


1951

J.J. Early
Blake T. Kennedy
Charles M. Smith


1950

Lester Galloway Hunt
Leslie Andrew Miller
James Byron Wilson


1949

Harry W. Bashore

Emory Lee Jewell

Percy Craig Spencer

A.E. Stoddard


1948

William Robertson Coe

Charles A. Myers


1947

J.A. Hill
J.C. O'Mahoney
Fred E. Warren


1946

A.G. Crane

Jack Bugas

J. L. Morrill


1945

Fred G. Gurley

Nelson T. Johnson
James Cash Penney


1944

General J. Pershing
John W. Hay

James Wilson


1943

Thurman Wesley Arnold

Herbert Jeffrey King

George Edward Pendray


1942

John Edward Anderson

Constant Louis Irwin

Goerge Brown Pryde

Harry Stanley Rogers


1941

George Washington Thornton Beck
William Henry Jackson


1940

Bryant Butler Brooks

William Edward Chaplin

Ernest Dichmann Peek

Nellie Tayloe Ross


1939

Major General Herbert J. Brees
Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land
William M. Jeffers


1937

Dr. Frank Pierrepont Graves
Dr. Aven Nelson
Justus Freeland Soule

Grace Raymond Hebard


1934

Frank Wheeler Mondell
Elwood Mead


1933

Willis Van Devanter


1932

Rev. John Roberts

John Benjamin Kendrick


1921

Carrie Chapman Catt